Hedgehog, a digital consultancy engineering high - performance, multi-channel solutions, today announced the release of a brand-new product called Avtor, a part of the Team Development for Sitecore Essential Collection.

Development of features and components requires a set of Sitecore items to be packaged - things like renderings and templates. With TDS Classic, Sitecore developers can automate the packaging process.&nbsp;

Setting up Azure staging slots, so the next release of our project can be placed there, allows us to deploy the new code to a private website (the slot), and test it before pushing it live. We are going to script this process to make it easier for the devops team to automate.

There are certain systems and processes that you can put in place to make a TDS Classic project run more smoothly. We're highlighting the best practices that our team recommends for getting the most out of TDS Classic.

When building an .update package with TDS Classic, the build might fail with no additional information. From increasing log verbosity to using validators, there are ways to minimize or prevent this type of error.

Our simple scenario includes 2 developers using TDS Classic and checking-in changes to source control. The Jenkins build server takes the changes and performs the build, and then deploys the created package to two Sitecore environments.